"Mr. Hedges trusting the class. At the final dance Mr. Hedges is ensnared in the romantic clutches of Miss Cutforth, contrary to his wishes. Please Sir! (film) Please Sir! is a 1971 British comedy film starring John Alderton, spun off from the television series ""Please Sir!"" Mr. Hedges, the somewhat naive and idealistic teacher of the rebellious Class 5C, lobbies to have them allowed on the school camping trip despite much precedent to the contrary. Once on the camping trip Mr. Hedges pursues Penny Wheeler, the local barmaid, and the class indulge in their usual activities. A small feud with"
"Bad Education (TV series) Bad Education is a British television sitcom that was produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Three. It stars Jack Whitehall as young teacher Alfie Wickers – ""the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system"" – at the fictional Abbey Grove School, in Hertfordshire. At the time of the series launch in August 2012 it broke BBC Three's record for the highest viewing figure for a first episode of a comedy, which was previously held by ""Horne & Corden"", but is now held by ""Cuckoo"". The second series premiered on BBC iPlayer on 27"
"Rat, Potter would often complain to John Alderton, who played the part of schoolteacher Mr Hedges, about class '5C' and their 'dreadful behaviour'. Other television appearances include those in ""That's My Boy"", a comedy series starring Mollie Sugden and Christopher Blake, and the short-lived political comedy ""Best of Enemies"". He also played a drunken surgeon in the film ""Carry On Doctor"". During the 1980s he voiced an animated skeleton in UK adverts for Scotch Video Tapes. He was the narrator of the BBC documentary about Fred Dibnah - ""Fred Dibnah, Steeplejack"" Guyler had been a devotee of washboard playing since"
"and Larbey created one of their most popular comedies with ""Please Sir!"", which starred John Alderton as a naive teacher thrown in at the deep end in a tough south London school. Rejected by the BBC, the series was accepted by London Weekend Television, whose head of comedy was then Frank Muir. Part of the inspiration for this series was their education in London schools. Although not acknowledged, the American sitcom ""Welcome Back, Kotter"" (1975) drew inspiration from this. The antics of Form 5C in ""Please Sir!"" led to Esmonde and Larbey being commissioned to write a sequel — ""The"
"John Alderson (actor) John Bramwell Alderson (10 April 1916 – 4 August 2006) was an English actor noted for playing the lead in the 1957-58 syndicated western television series, ""Boots and Saddles"", which ran for thirty-eight episodes in a single season, and many supporting roles in films in a career spanning almost forty years, from 1951 to 1990. Alderson was cast as the rugged trail guide Hugh Glass, an historical figure, in the 1966 episode ""Hugh Glass Meets the Bear"" of the syndicated series, ""Death Valley Days"". Others in the episode were Morgan Woodward as Thomas Fitzpatrick, Victor French as"
"by Troubles, on the subject of male mental health. He has been married to writer/actress Bronágh Taggart since 2008. Jonathan Harden Jonathan Harden is a Northern Irish actor, director and mental health advocate. Born in Belfast in 1979 to an American mother and an Irish father, he is best known as series regular Sean Rawlins in ITV crime drama ""Unforgotten"", Gregory in the final series of ""Peep Show"", Walter Hill in """", as Newman Noggs in ""Nick Nickleby"" - a BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens novel, ""The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"" (which he also narrated) – and for"
"book were given to Somerville College, Oxford by Holtby on her death, which used royalties from ""South Riding"" and ""Pavements at Anderby"" to fund a scholarship. The novel was adapted for the cinema in 1938 starring Edna Best as Sarah Burton, Ralph Richardson as Robert Carne and Edmund Gwenn as Alfred Huggins. It was adapted for television by Stan Barstow for Yorkshire Television in 1974, starring Hermione Baddeley as Mrs Beddows, Dorothy Tutin as Sarah Burton, Nigel Davenport as Robert Carne and Judi Bowker as Midge Carne. A radio version starring Sarah Lancashire and Philip Glenister was broadcast on BBC"
"general election, Fenton came out in support for the Labour Party, after appearing in their election broadcast. Leonard Fenton Leonard Fenton (born Leonard Feinstein; 29 April 1926) is a British actor, director and painter, he is best known for his role as Dr. Harold Legg in ""EastEnders"". Fenton was born Leonard Feinstein in the East End of London, where he was raised, the son of Jewish parents with ancestral roots in Eastern Europe (Riga and Lithuania). He attended Raine Foundation Grammar School from 1937 to 1944. Fenton originally trained to be a civil engineer at King's College London and during"
"Leonard Fenton Leonard Fenton (born Leonard Feinstein; 29 April 1926) is a British actor, director and painter, he is best known for his role as Dr. Harold Legg in ""EastEnders"". Fenton was born Leonard Feinstein in the East End of London, where he was raised, the son of Jewish parents with ancestral roots in Eastern Europe (Riga and Lithuania). He attended Raine Foundation Grammar School from 1937 to 1944. Fenton originally trained to be a civil engineer at King's College London and during World War II he was conscripted as an army engineer. He worked in this profession for five"
"Andrew Treneman (Jamie Glover) as Deputy Head. However, Andrew struggles to connect with both the staff and the pupils at first, having come from a more successful upper class school and background. One of the major plots this series focused on the death of student Adam Deardon, who dies in a car crash. Classmate Donte Charles (Adam Thomas) was driving the car when it happened, both underage and under the influence of alcohol. Another central character in the first series is Lewis Seddon, who bullies fellow student Rory Bears (Josh Hanlon) for being homosexual and who does not behave well"
"were announced as executive producers. As of May 2016, Stephen King said that the series had been ""back-burnered."" However, on May 26, 2016, David E. Kelley announced that the 10 episode series was still alive, confirming that it would air via AT&T U-verse, on its DirecTV channel Audience. In January 2017, it was announced the series was in production and would premiere August 9, 2017 on Audience. The series stars Brendan Gleeson as Bill Hodges, while Brady Hartsfield is portrayed by Harry Treadaway (replacing Anton Yelchin, who died in June 2016, a few months before production started). Mr. Mercedes Mr."
"to ""teach him a lesson"" and moves in with her friend Maggie. Frances de la Tour was cast as Maggie, and Rosemary Martin was cast as Allie. A half hour pilot was produced, and aired on 3 May 1977 but the series was never produced. Bernard Taylor (author) Bernard Taylor, (born 1934 in Wiltshire, England) is a British author of horror, suspense and romantic fiction and of true-crime non-fiction. He has written several plays for the theatre, and has also written for television and radio. He has more recently written novels under the pseudonym Jess Foley. Born in Wiltshire, Taylor"
"in two episodes of ""Bleak House"", playing Mrs Bayham Badger, alongside Gillian Anderson, Charles Dance, Alun Armstrong and Warren Clarke. Mr Bayham Badger was played by Richard Griffiths. David's many other television appearances have included ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"", ""Miss Marple"", ""Foyle's War"", ""Rumpole of the Bailey"", ""Inspector Morse"", ""Midsomer Murders"", ""The Darling Buds of May"" and in 2004 ""Rosemary & Thyme"" in an episode entitled ""Orpheus in the Undergrowth"". Recent appearances include the BBC comedy series ""Never Better"", ""Mutual Friends"", and ""Death in Paradise"" (2014 episode 3.8) On stage, she played opposite Derek Jacobi in ""Breaking the Code""."
"Jonathan Harden Jonathan Harden is a Northern Irish actor, director and mental health advocate. Born in Belfast in 1979 to an American mother and an Irish father, he is best known as series regular Sean Rawlins in ITV crime drama ""Unforgotten"", Gregory in the final series of ""Peep Show"", Walter Hill in """", as Newman Noggs in ""Nick Nickleby"" - a BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens novel, ""The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"" (which he also narrated) – and for his cameo in """". Over his career as an actor, Harden has been cast by some of the industry's"
"Season"". Of the cast, the three teenage leads were unknown: Catherine Sanderson as Tess, Simon Fenton as Ben, and Emma Jane Lavin as Carey. Simon Fenton has since gone on to appear in several well-known television dramas, such as ITV's police soap opera ""The Bill"" (in 2002) and Steven Spielberg's ""Band of Brothers"" (2001). Many of the adult cast were already well-known character actors from a range of British television dramas. Bernard Kay (Richard Naismith) had appeared in episodes of many long-running British television dramas, such as ""Doctor Who"", ""Crossroads"", ""Dixon of Dock Green"" and ""Z-Cars"", as well as films"
"and as Bernie in"" Streets Apart"" (1988–89). In 1999, he played Austin Danforth in the ITV drama ""The Last Train"" and in 2001 he appeared as Ivan Braithwaite in """". Hazeldine also appeared in Granada Television's production of ""The Musgrave Ritual"", as part of ITV's ""The Return of Sherlock Holmes"" series, as Richard Brunton, alongside Jeremy Brett, as well as the ""Miss Marple"" story ""The Murder at the Vicarage"", as Lawrence Redding, alongside Joan Hickson, Paul Eddington and Cheryl Campbell. Shortly before he died, Hazeldine played DI Stan Egerton in the ITV television drama ""Shipman"" (2002). His film credits are"
"stomach surgery, related to his cancer. Andy Cunningham (actor) Andrew Cunningham (13 May 1950 – 5 June 2017) was an English actor, puppeteer, ventriloquist and writer. He was best known as the creator and main writer of the children's BBC television series, ""Bodger & Badger"", in which he acted as the likeable but accident prone Simon Bodger and his pet, Badger. Cunningham studied at the University of Cambridge, where he read English. He dropped out of this course at the end of the second of its three years, citing academic pressures as the reason for doing so, but later completed"
"of his bigger roles was as the character Charlie Mead in the final series of ""London's Burning"". He currently presents a number of video shows on Virgin Media Sport. His characters include Mr Sheepskin and Danny Dire. He made his West End London début when he performed his one-man show at the Bloomsbury Theatre on 21 May 2010. In 2013, he joined the cast of ""EastEnders"" as cockney cab driver Terry Spraggan. Terry Alderton Terry Alderton (born 31 October 1970) is an English comedian who had acting and presenting roles in the early 2000s before returning to stand-up comedy a"
"are moving from primary to secondary school and from secondary to further education. This project has been taking place in a variety of schools since 2008. This series has been admitted into the Media Archive of Central England. In 2017 he and his son Waldo Fox Kennedy set up Bracket Energy Media Production. They produce video for business and specialise in online content. Keaton currently lives in Lincolnshire. Ben Keaton Ben Keaton (born 1956) is an Irish actor who appeared as Jeff Brannigan in ITV soap opera ""Emmerdale"". He appeared in BBC's ""Casualty"" playing the part of Spencer between 1999-2002."
"music teacher at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School (where David Baddiel was a pupil) who left the school in the mid-1980s following allegations concerning indecent approaches to the boys. Clulow was subsequently convicted and imprisoned on charges of indecent assault and one count of causing a child to engage in sexual activity. A television pilot aired on BBC2 shortly before the fourth and final radio series, on 3 October 1990. The first series started on 3 January 1991 and ran for six episodes, with a second set of six episodes in 1992. The television series was a mix of observational comedy"
"and arranged by John Altman. The principal message of the series is a thinly-veiled attack on (then) Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Britain and the wasted resource of schoolchildren emerging from education to find no jobs and precious few prospects awaiting them. 1. ""1977-1978"" (first broadcast 10 November 1983) """"The unlikely friendship between Johnny Jarvis and Alan Lipton begins in their last year at a comprehensive in Hackney. Jarvis, the loveable clown with a surprising talent for welding…Lipton, the apparently talentless reject, fantasising about the future and the father he has never met. At the end of the year they have"
"the animated shorts ""Haunted Hogmanay"" and ""Glendogie Bogey"". In addition to his role as DCI Matt Burke in Taggart, he had previously appeared in the same series as murder suspect George Bryce in the episode ""Knife Edge"" in 1986. He was the subject of ""This Is Your Life"" in 2003 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel. From August to September 2012 he played the role of Gerard Findlay in ""Waterloo Road"", a headteacher from rival school Havelock High School. March 2014 saw him playing Cameron Watts in the ""Dead Water"" episodes of the BBC One crime drama series Shetland."
"of social skills, turning the professor from an academic caricature into a more rounded character, described by horror aficionado David Kerekes as ""especially daring for its day"". The stage journal ""Plays and Players"" suggests that Hordern's performance hints that the professor suffers from a neurological condition called the ""idea of a presence"". Much of the script was improvised on location with the actors. A new adaptation was screened on BBC Two during the 2010 Christmas television season. This new version, written by Neil Cross and directed by Andy de Emmony, stars John Hurt in the lead role. This adaptation removes"
"in the collection, ""Mr Potter takes a Rest Cure"", ""The Rise of Minna Nordstrom"" and ""The Nodder"", were produced as part of the BBC's Wodehouse Playhouse series, starring John Alderton and Pauline Collins, airing in 1975 and 1976 respectively. In 2013. BBC television aired a new series ""Blandings"" starring Timothy Spall as Clarence, Jennifer Saunders as Connie, and Jack Farthing as Freddie. Beach was played by Mark Williams (2013) and Tim Vine (2014). Blandings Castle and Elsewhere Blandings Castle and Elsewhere is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United Kingdom on"
"running television series ""Dixon of Dock Green"". Other TV credits include: ""The Professionals"", ""Enemy at the Door"", ""Minder"", ""Bergerac"", ""The New Statesman"", ""Between the Lines"", ""Bramwell"", ""Cracker"", ""Dalziel and Pascoe"", ""Heartbeat"", ""Sleepers"", ""Spooks"", ""Midsomer Murders"", ""Hustle"", ""Waking the Dead"", ""Wallis & Edward"", ""A Touch of Frost"", ""Cold Blood"", ""Burn Up"" and ""Houdini"". He also appeared as Harold Hardman, the Manchester United chairman at the time of the Munich air disaster in 1958, in the TV drama ""United"", aired by the BBC in April 2011. In 2013, he played Mr Reid in ""The Wrong Mans"". Calder appeared as Sir Robert King"
"in 1975 as a ""BBC Play of the Month"", directed by James Cellan Jones. It featured Clifford Evans as John Anthony, Colin Blakely as David Roberts, Nerys Hughes as Annie Roberts, Angela Down as Enid Underwood, Jeremy Clyde as Edgar Anthony and John Bennett as Simon Harness. It was seen in 1988 in the BBC series ""Theatre Night"", directed by Michael Darlow. It featured Peter Vaughan as John Anthony, Timothy West as David Roberts, Anna Calder-Marshall as Annie Roberts, Kate Buffery as Enid Underwood, Shaun Scott as Edgar Anthony and Andrew Burt as Simon Harness. The play was revived in"
"Jack Derges Jack Derges is a British actor, best known for playing the role of Andy Flynn in ""EastEnders"". Derges made his acting debut during the ""Casualty"" episode ""Core Values"" on as Private Haydon and in 2012, he appeared in ""Casualty"" again as Ben Shears in the episode ""Desperate Remedies"". In 2009, he appeared in one episode of the third series of Skins. He went on to appear in a TV movie """" as Grayson. He has also appeared in the first ever episode of television series ""Switch"" as Miles in 2012. In 2013, he appeared in ""WPC 56"" as"
"Jarvis Skelton Jarvis Skelton is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, ""Emmerdale"", who appeared on the show between 2002 and 2005. He was played by Richard Moore throughout his duration on the show. Jarvis first appeared in Emmerdale on 1 November 2002, and becomes a dustman. He becomes good friends with Edna Birch and Len Reynolds, and in December 2002, he researches Edna's family tree, and inadvertently reveals Edna's grandmother to have been a prostitute. In February 2003, Jarvis reveals to his lifelong dancing partner Freda Darby that he is in love with her, but she rejects"
"(Daniel Rigby), a music teacher with ambitions to be a singer-songwriter, Mr Barber (Steve Speirs), a geography teacher who is having a nervous breakdown and is employed as a caretaker in the second series and Mr Hubble (James Greene), the elderly and unwell head of science. The pupils at the school are portrayed as being mainly interested in social networking, texting and partying and as being bored by the attempts of Mr Church and Miss Postern to engage with them. The most prominent of them in the first series is a streetwise pupil called Manyou, played by Joivan Wade, who"
"Saunders, a famous dermatologist from London. Dr. Saunders determines that Emsworth actually has ichthyosis, or pseudo-leprosy, a disease that is quite treatable. Holmes's investigation of the mystery is delayed because he is engaged in clearing up ""the case which my friend Watson has described as that of the Abbey School, in which the Duke of Greyminster was so deeply involved"". The Duke of ""Holdernesse"" was the principal client in the case of the Priory School. ""The Blanched Soldier"" was dramatised for BBC Light Programme in August 1959 by Michael Hardwick starring Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes, and later on BBC"
"McGough who was first introduced in Series Two as prison doctor, Malcolm Nicholson, James Gaddas who appears for the final time as main character Neil Grayling (making a one-off guest appearance in the first episode of Series Eight) and Tristan Sturrock who has played Colin Hedges since Series Five. This series sees the introduction of Nicola Stapleton (Janine Nebeski), Rebecca Hazlewood (Arun Palmer), Liz May Brice (Pat Kerrigan), Laura Rogers (Sheena Williams), Andrew Scarborough (Kevin Spiers) and Ellie Haddington (Joy Masterton) respectively. Recurring cast: Guest cast: The series picks up several weeks following the revelation that Fenner had framed Karen"
"directed by Ben Gosling Fuller, who also directed the show ""That Mitchell and Webb Look"". The main characters are played by Robert Webb and Katherine Parkinson with cameos and guest appearances from celebrities including Stephen Fry, David Mitchell, Phyllida Law, Johnny Vegas and Adrian Edmondson. Some of the cast from ""Bleak Expectations"" including Sarah Hadland, Richard Johnson, Susy Kane and Tom Allen also appear. The series was commissioned to coincide with the bicentenary of Charles Dickens' birth. The last episode aired on 5 March 2012. The plot is set in Victorian London and revolves around Jedrington Secret-Past (Robert Webb) and"
"Mark Benton Mark Benton (born 16 November 1965) is an English actor, known for his roles as Eddie in ""Early Doors"", Howard in ""Northern Lights"" and Martin Pond in ""Barbara"". Benton has also starred in BBC One drama, ""Waterloo Road"" as maths teacher, Daniel Chalk from 2011 to 2013 and again in 2014. In 2013, Benton took part in ""Strictly Come Dancing"" and in 2015, he hosted daytime game show ""The Edge"". Benton was born in Guisborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England. He was in the same drama class at Stockton Billingham Technical College as Elizabeth Carling. Some of Benton's"